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  By: Dwight Bain, LMHC, NCC   Parenting Launch Sequence - Letting Go of Children so they can Launch as successful Adults         Parents are told to give their children "roots and wings " from the time they are born until it is time to leave the nest, some twenty years later. The first part comes easier than the second, which may not come at all for older adolescents these days. Here are a few factors to help you understand why some kids never seem to launch into early success as young adults.   Giving a child ‘roots’ is about shared traditions, values, personal accountability to a moral standard of behavior, such as the golden rule or ten commandments, as well as providing a safe and loving home environment. Most parents do their best to care and provide for their kids and try to build these core values into the heart of their children which shows up through their choices in life. When a child clearly understands what they believe...

  By: Brian Murray, LMHC, NCC Codependents are identified as someone who has an addiction to love; they will sacrifice themselves to please others. They are deeply concerned with what others think of them in basically every area of life. They have a distorted sense of responsibility and often blame themselves for how others feel. Narcissists are very self-centered people who have a strong sense of specialness in the world. Their ego driven mentalities require others to see them as being highly special even if their life and achievements don't add up to how special they claim to be. Narcissists often blame others as having a problem when their specialness isn't recognized followed by a host of manipulation tactics aimed at punishing the person who didn't recognize them. They will also punish those who try and compete or relate at a level that is equal to them. There is a saying when it comes to narcissists, they don't share the stage because it's all about them...